background color

using drupal 7.12 on fedora core ver 15 with apache 2.2. I am having trouble figuring out how to modify the font type, size and background color of the horizontal header main menu using the fusion starter theme. I have been trying to make the changes at ~/sites/all/themes/fusion/fusion_starter/css/local.css.

In just trying to determine if the code will be reponsive I have

.fusion-inline-menu .inner ul.menu li a {
background: #004f90;
border-right-style: solid;
border-right-width: 1px;
display: inline;
margin: 0;
padding: 0;
white-space: nowrap;
}

Hello everyone,
I have been using drupal for quite a while, but am really new to the wysiwyg plugin.
Almost everything is working really fine, but my only issue is, that on of the themes I use has a dark background and white text. Editing this page with CKEditor, you can't see any text, as both background and text is white. So I am wondering, how I can change the background color (changing text color would be fine, too, but it's not really wysiwyg then anymore, is it?).